Choir Concert, Temple Square

Today was quite the Saturday. I had to have Adelia in Springville at 9:50am for a choir concert dress rehearsal. Ivan had to be in Spanish Fork for a 10am basketball game. Then Adelia had to be at the Springville Art Museum by 11:30 to warm up for her choir concert at noon. Grandma and Grandpa Swan, and Gramma Tam and Papa Kerry were planning to come down for the choir concert. And since Mom and Kerry were driving a long way, they wanted to go out for pizza with us afterwards. And one of our bucketlist items of the season was to go see the lights at Temple Square, since we haven't been since Adelia was a baby, and we wanted to go with Mom and Kerry, and we thought since they were driving up today anyways, that today would be a great day to go. Whew, I'm tired just typing it.

Somehow this morning, Adelia managed to rip the buckle off of her brand new black choir shoes. Luckily Aaron was able to fix it with a glue gun and a needle and thread. Then when I got her to warm ups, I looked down and she had a giant hole in her brand new tights. I took her to the dressing room and had her change them around backwards so that the whole was on the back of her knee instead of the front of her knee. That girl!

Adelia said she had a surprise for us, and it was that during the opening number she was singing a solo! She did awesome! I was so proud of her. I took a picture first and then started recording, so the video is missing the first of the song.

Papa Kerry, Adelia, Gramma Tam

 After the concert, we went to Pier 49 Pizza with Mom and Kerry. We got a Hawaiian which is the kids' favorite pizza, and a vegetarian, which in mine and my mom's favorite at Pier 49. Neither of us are even vegetarian, but that pizza is just so good there. I don't usually like the vegetarian at other places, but at Pier 49 it's heavenly.

Then we loaded up cars and headed to Temple Square. By the time we got down there and got parked, it was about 3:30pm and still light outside, which was great. We figured we'd walk around and see the Visitor's Center and the Tabernacle, and the Conference Center, and the Christ statue while it was still pretty empty. Then right when it got dark, we went to see the lights and the reflection pond, and the nativity, that way we weren't trying to fight crowds of people the entire time. I was amazed the difference in how crowed it was while it was light, versus when it got dark. Holy smokes! Probably my favorite thing this trip was listening to the organ play in the tabernacle. It's so much cooler in real life.

We left Temple Square about 6:30, so we were home at a reasonable time to still get kids in bed on time. It was a hectic day, but a wonderful hectic, filled with the people I love most. But it wiped me right out. I want to crawl in my bed and sleep until next week (which, my ever logical son, Lincoln, reminds me is tomorrow morning anyways.)